Friday, 22 November 2013

As the season premiere of the My little pony Friendship is Magic is
rolling around quite soon I decided that this would be the perfect time
to take some fashion inspiration from the most regal of all Ponies the
four Alicorn princesses.

Princess Celestia

Princess Celestia is the
benevolent ruler of Equestria and the princess of the day. Her reign
spans hundreds maybe thousands of years. She is also responsible of
bringing up the day by raising the sun. She is kind, warm, wise and has a
mischievous streak.

Stylewise princess Celestia is very regal in a very comfortable way. Her
colours are soft bright pastels and lovely radiant whites. She seems to
be the universal mother figure of the ponykind and as such her look is
very approachable.

For Princess Celestia I chose a pale white dress with pastel coloured blouse, bolero and stockings. To make her royal status clear, she wears a golden crown, shoes and a sun pendant to connect with her celestial charge. As you can see I chose to not use wigs so my primary inspiration were her colours.

Princess Luna / Nightmare moon

Princess Luna is
the sister of Celestia who succumbed to her jealousy and was turned in
to the evil mare of Darkness, Nightmare moon who wished to bring about
eternal night. Celestia was forced to banish her in to the moon for a
thousand years. Now she has returned and redeemed by the elements of
harmony. Her duties include bringing the night by raising the moon and
soothing ponies' nigthtmares by offering her wisdom via dream walking.

As the princess of the nigth Luna's style is darker and a good bit
colder than Celestia's. Even if she is smaller in stature her presence
is more imposing in the world of mostly pastel coloured subjects.
As the Nigthmare she was even more dark, cold and imposing choosing to
wear armour instead of regalia the princesses usually prefere.

I chose to do both, Luna and Nightmare. Both would were high heeled boots and a moon shaped pendant but show their differences with their other choises. To add to their mystery as beings of the night I had them wear masks. Luna's mask shows the beuaty of the moon where Nightmare's is dark, and twisted, a horror of the moonless night. Their material choices are different as well. Luna's dress is floaty light chiffon where Nightmare wears something hard, almost leathery.

Princess Cadence

Cadence or Princess Mia Amora
Cadenza is the princess of Love and The Crystal Princess of the Crystal
Empire. She is kind in a more youthful big sisterly way than Celestia.
She ascended to alicornhood when she fully grasped the magic of love and
became the adopted niece of Celestia. In her wedding to Shining Armour
their combined love defeated the queen of the Changelings and her army.
Now they live in and rule the Crystal Empire.

Cadence's style is befittingly pink for the princess of Love. As an
alicorn she is quite a lot younger than Luna or Celestia and thusly more
normal looking as ponies go. Her mane is not a wild mass of swirling
magic but normal like every other pony though as the Crystal princess
she may use some gems to decorate it.

For Cadence I chose a onepiece dress with a soft pink hue. She would wear a crown decorated with heartshaped gems and add roses in her hair. I also chose to include the crystal heart pendant to show of her status as the Crystal Princess.

Princess Twilight

Twiligth Sparkle is the newest
princess of Equestria, once pupil of Celestia and quite bookish. She is
not quite comfortable in her role yet and thusly not quite as confident
as the other princesses. Her ascendance to alicornhood came from
friendship and her role in Equestria is still quite uncertain.

As the newest of the princesses I would venture a guess that
Twiligth would be a very classic princess, choosing safer option with
the help of her fashionista friend Rarity. She would still hold on to a bit of
her neat style suited for librarian and a student.

For Twilight I chose a less formal dress as she isn't quite accustomed to her new status. Her crown is more of headband showing of the shape of her cutiemark. Twilight would wear some well chosen jewelery maybe on the insistence of Rarity. Her choice of dress is quite practical ( it has pockets!) accordance to her logical personality.

Bonus round: Queen Chrysalis

Chrysalis
is Queen of the Changelings a race of ponylike beings with some added
attributes from the world of insects. They feed on love and can take a
form of anypony to syphon off the love of those closest to their victim.
In the wedding of Princess Cadence and Shining Armour, Chrysalis took
the form of Cadence to lead an invasion of Equestria which promptly
failed as Twiligth freed the real Cadence ableing her and Shining Armour
to defeat the Queen.

Chrysalis is the creepiest thing the show has thrown out so far.
She is about the size of Celestia with holes on her hooves and a jagged
mallformed horn and seaweedlike green hair. Her style thusly is quite
dark with colour palette of black and sickly greens.

With Chrysalis I chose to go a little bit more punk as befits a queen of the Badlands come to fight for dominance of Equestria. To corrolate with her insectoid wings she would wear a dragonfly pendant and soft floaty fabrics. Torn stockings give her outfit some approriate edge.

So this is my take about these royals. Do you have any ideas of what they migth wear or do you just dislike this show completely? Is there other shows you find inspiring? Do share your thoughts in the comments.

Friday, 15 November 2013

So this week we were supposed to be inspired by books. Can you guess which book I chose?

Well Harry Potter of course! And as Pottermore tells me I'm a Slytherin so I decided to proudly sport my houses colours! A dark blouse is to give it that mystic edge that tells which house has produced most dark wizards.

Outfit rundown:

Hat, blouse: Vintage
Dress, scarf: Hand made by yours truly.

Stockings: Random
Shoes: Wonders

Sanni came ovar for tea. We had quite a lot of fun with blinies and a Russian sort of blend.

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Romantic heroines are an interesting bunch. There are so many different
types to choose from. Two of these I've chosen are from great classic
stories and the last one is from what one would call trashy romance
fiction of the modern era. This should be fun. Let us carry on.

Jane Eyre

The orphaned daughter of a highborn
woman and a poor priest has sent to school by her cold aunt. In the
school she grows up to be a teacher and finally leaves to become a
governess for the ward of Mr. Rochester a dark and mysterious
gentleman. Her conviction to virtue will carry her through a storm of
passion and towards happiness.

Jane Eyre wears a smart yet functional one piece dress with dainty collar and a muted colour scheme. Her stockings are grey and she wears practical boots and a school type bag for after all she is straigth out of Lowood at this point. To cover her head against the cool english climate she has a nice. Jane is a teacher so she needs a watch to make sure she is in time.

Elizabeth Bennett

In my opinion Elizabeth Bennett
is the Jane Austen heroine. She is quite witty, quite beautiful and
very much in need of a husband. She lives her life as a gentle woman of a
regency England. Her prospects are quite meager for her home will be
inherited by a distant cousin and as her parents hoped for a son they
didn't realize that they would need to save money for their daughters. A
new world opens as the neighboring estate is rented out to a young
man...

Elizabeth makes her elegant figure stand out with a simple lined dress which she accessories modestly. A simple ribbon in her hair and an umbrella to protect one from surprise showers during those long walks. Polkadotted tigths give her look a quirky edge that is sure to catch the eye of the esteemed Mr Darcy.

The quintessential Barbara Cartland heroine.

She
is pure and she is young and beautiful and naturally she is in great
peril usually because a man who she absolutely despises wishes to marry
her. Often she will escape this man and run into another man (the hero)
who is dashing, experienced (in the art of love) and most of the time
very very rich and even more jaded. He will eventually fall in love with
her for she is different and more worthy than any other woman in his
life. But alas the danger still lurks...

She (weither her name is Tatika or Paenthia or Lucretia) wears something that is definitely romantic. Her hair is adorned with roses and to disguise herself during her escape a cape is needed. Around her wrist we find a memento of a loved one, perhaps a lost mother of adored but now deceised father... She truly is queen of romance.

Is there any romantic heroines that you, my dear reader find very inspiring indeed? Do share in the comments.